Ontario Issues:
Activists protest cut to Community Start-Up Benefit in K-W:
http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/759484–poor-will-suffer-when-home-maintenance-benefit-is-cut-advocates-warn
Cabinet Minister John Gerretsen takes Put Food in the Budget challenge – says “I don’t think that government as a whole, including my own, are necessarily doing enough”:
http://www.thewhig.com/2012/07/12/mpp-gets-a-close-up-look-at-poverty
The Trillium Benefit comes online:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1225861–ontario-s-trillium-benefit-a-new-way-to-help-the-poor
As social assistance costs are uploaded to the province, Waterloo plans to spend on transit:
http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/761026–region-to-use-social-assistance-savings-for-rapid-transit
Getting rid of Rand a bad idea, says NDP:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1221677–tory-labour-reforms-would-drive-down-wages-ndp-warns
Even worse, says Sid Ryan, it’s a plan for poverty, not prosperity:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1224559–conservative-tim-hudak-pushes-plan-for-poverty-not-prosperity
How to manage in a minority:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1218999–lesson-from-ontario-s-election-scare-pick-up-the-phone-politicians
The NDP on WSIB’s unfunded liability:
http://ontariondp.com/en/ndp-wsib-unfunded-liability-should-be-paid-for-through-employer-premiums-not-cuts-to-injured-worker-benefits
Around the Province:
Founder of Pathways to Education gets Order of Canada:
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1391745–poverty-fighter-receives-order-of-canada
Toronto’s bed bug team may get a reprieve:
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/10/1-million-to-fight-bed-bugs-on-toronto-councils-agenda
Too poor to bury her husband, in Niagara:
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2012/07/10/cancer-victim-body-waits-in-funeral-home
Across the Country:
Plugging for a guaranteed annual income in Regina, SK:
http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Tackle+poverty+with+income+guarantee/6885462/story.html
New poverty reduction plan in Surrey, BC:
- http://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/302n.asp?newsid=4757&r=4758&r=4757&r=4756
- http://www.theprovince.com/business/Surrey+Poverty+Reduction+Plan+starting+take+shape/6909570/story.html
- http://www.canada.com/business/Surrey+poverty+reduction+plan+boasts+points/6908140/story.html
How to tackle poverty in Winnipeg:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/better-ways-to-fight-poverty-than-moving-cp-yards-162033035.html
National:
The right to food in Canada:
http://www.cpj.ca/en/content/right-food-canada
CAW releases study of impacts on laid off workers:
- Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1225339–laid-off-workers-get-hit-by-health-marital-woes-caw-study-finds
- Windsor Star: http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2012/07/12/three-years-after-losing-jobs-laid-off-auto-workers-still-struggling-says-study/
- CAW press release with link to report: http://www.caw.ca/en/11330.htm
Doctors’ protest disrupts Toronto Pan Am Games event:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/10/pol-doctors-gosal-refugees-health-benefits-pan-am-toronto.html
Mowat Centre report says EI changes will hit big cities hardest:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1224642–ei-changes-to-hit-new-workers-in-big-cities-hardest-study-says
Death of Evidence event brings scientists to the streets:
- CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/09/f-scientists-rally.html
- UK’s Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/09/canada-stephen-harper-revolt-scientists
Death of Evidence event makes for great protest signs:
http://www.openfile.ca/ottawa/slideshow/death-evidence-rally-births-great-protest-signs
Op Ed on cuts to Statistics Canada – cuts dismantle our ability to understand ourselves and the state’s responses to our issues:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1224561–statistics-canada-cuts-compromise-the-tools-used-to-understand-the-state
Harper’s strategy for dismantling services:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Janet+Bagnall+Conservatives+repeat+themselves/6901730/story.html#ixzz209AJrd9O
Young people in Canada still face bleak employment prospects:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/jobs-picture-still-dim-for-canadas-young/article4394040/
Tackling the income gap in Canada’s major cities:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1223391–tackling-the-income-gap-in-canadian-cities
Vic Toews made a $1.48B error – now says 2700 new prison beds is enough:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/11/pol-toews-prison-inmates-money-back.html?cmp=rss
New federal polling:
http://www.threehundredeight.com/2012/07/june-2012-federal-polling-averages.html
International:
The welfare state is NOT the death knell of growth:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-myth-that-entitlements-destroy-a-nations-growth-busted-in-1-chart/259645/
David Olive on the global economy:
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1222047–global-economy-david-olive-on-three-ways-global-leaders-just-don-t-get-it
United Kingdom:
High tuition fees in UK mark “a historic U-turn on mass inclusion”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/03/absurd-student-debt-has-ended-inclusion
Cameron’s pledge to families not being met:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/coalition-struggling-on-families-16183486.html
Cuts to housing benefits means recipients not welcome in housing:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2012/jul/05/welfare-cuts-housing-benefit-claimants-not-welcome-rent?newsfeed=true
There’s not “a snowball’s chance in hell” the UK will reach its child poverty reduction targets:
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9390067/Alan-Milburn-not-a-snowballs-chance-in-hell-UK-will-eradicate-child-poverty-by-2020.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18786883
The equivalent of three pupils in every UK school class will be facing serious deprivation by 2015:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9378768/Poverty-1m-children-on-the-brink-by-2015-warn-charities.html
USA:
Homelessness an “ignored epidemic”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-fuller/homelessness-ignored-epidemic_b_1660599.html
Who is repeating the benefits of growth:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-post-employee-economy-why-sky-high-profits-are-here-to-stay/259564/
Wal-Mart: 50 years of gutting America’s middle class:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/02-7
The sharp, sudden decline of America’s middle class:
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-sharp-sudden-decline-of-americas-middle-class-20120622?print=true
Suburban poverty in the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/struggling-in-the-suburbs.html?_r=1
Australia:
Breaking “the cycle of idleness and habits of apathy”:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/coalition-targets-welfare-bludgers-20120705-21k44.html#ixzz20XVUGOkF
France:
New socialist government undertaking reforms to France’s social safety net in the name of increasing competitiveness: